With technology permeating social lives and education, multitasking has become a common part of everyday life. This raises the question: does multitasking affect school performance? A 2012 study published in Computers & Education gives a few answers. Researchers Reynol Junco and Shelia Cotton did ...
Memphis is known for its clean water, but the Thirst Project School Tour on campus today aims to tell the campus community more about the lack of clean water around the world. Thirst representatives will be set up in the University of Memphis Campus Store and Café at 2 p.m. to talk about the need ...
"Jazz for the Holidays," a radiothon fundraiser, will be hosted this weekend by the Mid-South's only exclusively jazz radio station, WUMR. Chris Davis, program director for the University of Memphis station, said people will be able to hear jazz versions of classic Christmas songs, and that it will ...
Graduating seniors of the University of Memphis' Department of Fine Arts will showcase their talents in an end-of-the-semester exhibition. "Flat Mates: A View of Eight" will open Nov. 30 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Marshall Arts Gallery located in downtown Memphis at 639 Marshall Ave. The department expects ...
The African Student Association hopes to shock students with culture Wednesday night. ASA has hosted "Culture Shock" for years. Jelisa Jefferson, special events coordinator, said typically 300 to 400 students attend the event, but more are expected to come this year. It consists of 10 acts, which Jefferson ...
Memphis artists have donated hand-painted and crafted bowls to raise awareness and support for local hunger and homelessness. According to its website, the Empty Bowls project originated in Michigan in 1990 when a class of high school students and their teacher wanted to find a way to raise money for ...
Political science principles suggest the cost of devoting time, getting in the car to go to the polls and standing in line to vote is greater than the reward received if a voter's preferred candidate wins. R = (P x B) - C. Eric Groenendyk, assistant professor of political science at the University of ...
Tigers basketball fans have been expecting their team to win the NCAA tournament for years. If this year isn't "the year," will fans fall off of the bandwagon? Last year the University of Memphis men's basketball team won 26 games, lost nine, won the C-USA Tournament and fell short in the NCAA Tournament ...
The Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law will celebrates its golden anniversary this weekend, the same year as the University of Memphis' Centennial. "Since we are focusing on the people of the law school, we want to make it so that faculty, staff and students have an opportunity to be a part of the celebration," ...
About $5.6 million will be spent fixing the roofs of seven on-campus buildings and an off-campus property owned by the University of Memphis. The building re-roof projects began between July and early September, but the request for roof repair was first brought up during the 2007-2008 school year as ...
